Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

We think too much and feel too little.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.